Amanda Huggins is the author of the novellas All Our Squandered Beauty and Crossing the Lines, as well as four previous collections of short fiction and poetry. She was a runner-up in the Costa Short Story Award 2018 and her prize-winning story ‘Red’ features in her collection Scratched Enamel Heart. In 2020 she won the Colm Toibin International Short Story Award, was included in the BIFFY50 list of Best British and Irish Flash Fiction 2019–20, and her poetry chapbook, The Collective Nouns for Birds, won the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet. In 2021 All Our Squandered Beauty won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella and Amanda also won the H E Bates Short Story Competition and was Highly Commended in the Fish Short Story Prize. She grew up on the North Yorkshire coast, moved to London in the 1990s, and now lives in West Yorkshire.